A personal view of e-learning at the University of British Columbia

By Tony Bates, on January 31st, 2010

The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (home of OLT)

It’s now seven years since I resigned as Director of Distance Education and Technology at UBC, and my motto has always been ‘Never look back.’ However, two things came together to bring me back to UBC last week with a ‘formal’ invitation for [...]

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Research on games: Selene/CyGaMEs

By Tony Bates, on January 4th, 2010

From Natasha Boskic

Research that shows how playing a well-designed video game can enhance learning has been conducted by Dr. Debbie Denise Reese and her team at the Center for Educational Technologies® (CET) at Wheeling Jesuit University.

The CyGaMEs (Cyberlearning through Game-based, Metaphor Enhanced Learning Objects) project was funded by National Science Foundation in 2008 for two [...]

January 4th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Bibliography, Technology, games, social studies, subject areas | Leave a comment

Just damned good teaching

By Tony Bates, on November 20th, 2009

Kolowich, S. (2009) Professors of the Year Inside Higher Education, November 19

This article has nothing to do with e-learning, but it does discuss effective teaching practice, especially in chemistry. This approach could be used in hybrid or even fully online learning.

November 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Bibliography, Teaching and learning, chemistry, collaborative learning, course design, critical thinking, developing intellectual skills, learner-centered teaching, science, social studies, subject areas | 2 comments

Empowering education through technology in the k-12/school sector

By Tony Bates, on April 9th, 2009

My web site focuses primarily on post-secondary education, and because of the volume of articles in the k-12/school sector, I rarely post articles about this sector.

However, eSchool News provides a useful collection of articles each week through its Online Educational Resource Centre. There are often articles here that would also be of interest to post-secondary [...]

April 9th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Events, Strategies, planning and management, Teaching and learning, assessment, developing intellectual skills, learning styles, planning, policies and management - institutional, social studies | Leave a comment